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/" i'I f... '-, TUESDAY MAY 22, 1979 - handicapped and/or elderly, Council unanimously (with the exception of Councilman West, who abstained from voting because of his property holdings in that area) accepted the Planning Commission's recommendations thereon (dated April 20, 1979) and directed the issuance of the requested permit, accompanied by an indication of the preferences expressed by interested citizens present, including the Martinsville Senior Citizens (as a group, represented by Mrs. Kathy Childress, Senior Citizens Coordinator) for a "garden-type" facility, which preferences were registered during the subsequent consideration by Council of the application for a Special-Use Permit filed by Messrs. Clyde N. Eanes and Bruce W. Hughes, hereinafter recorded under item "5" of this portion of these minutes. Representing and speaking on behalf of Fralin & Waldron were Messrs. Horace Fralin and Elbert Waldron, who outlined the eligibility requirements for individual tenant subsidies as well as their considerable experience, both ownership and managerial, in similar projects elsewhere, meanwhile noting that their proposed project (as well as that of Messrs. Eanes and Hughes) would be constructed and operated under the funding requirements of the Virginia Housing & Development Authority, which agency has allocated ninety-four units to Martinsville for the handicapped and/or elderly and (that) the firm of Fralin & Waldron has been given a "No.1" funding priority by that agency; and -. -, (5) On an application for a Special-Use Permit, filed February 27, 1979, by Messrs. Clyde N. Eanes and Bruce W. Hughes, t/a Spruced ale Manor, (through their counsel, Attorney Ebb H. Williams, III), to allow for the construction and operation of a "garden-type" 120-unit apartment complex on the north side of Brookdale Road (to the rear of Lowe's Thrifty-Mart), whose tenants would be only the handicapped and/or elderly, Council unanimously (with the exception of Councilman West, who abstained from voting because of his property holdings in that area) accepted the Planning Commission's recommendations thereon (dated April 20, 1979) and directed the issuance of the requested permit. The record notes that City Attorney Worthy advised Council that its consideration and action on both the Fralin & Waldron application and the Eanes-Hughes application should be predicated solely on, and limited to, the City's "Regulations for Special Types of Uses" as set forth in subsection "B" of Section VIII of the City's Zoning Ordinance, being Appendix B of the City Code. The record notes, also, that Council's consideration and action on these two foregoing matters were predicated solely on, and limited to, said regulations. In tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendations for approval, Council called for a duly-advertised public hearings to be conducted on the following matters, as follows: (I) At Council's forthcoming June 12th meeting, on a petition submitted (April 24, 1979) by Mr. H. Banks Pannill (through Mr. Stanford C.